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Remember that the Mueller Inves arose from the FBI's inves into whether Trump was allied with Russian interests. I think that we DO know that Mueller has cont'd this line of Investigation, as was his choice. #SundayMorningwashingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

2-"The theory that President Trump is or has been a Russian asset is a popular one among his detractors. But for the first time, we’re learning that it’s something the FBI suspected strongly enough to dig into. The Washington Post has confirmed that the FBI launched a

3-"counterintelligence inquiry into whether Trump was working for Russia shortly after Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey in May 2017. The news was first reported by the New York Times. Practically speaking, this may not mean a whole lot. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller

A little follow up on yesterday's Times story: "Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter"washingtonpost.com/world/national…

2-"President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had

3-"transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said. Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s actions when a White House

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Comm, has issued a statement in re Trump lashing out at the FBI agents who investigated him. Saying that the HJC will investigate 'the president's actions' & protect the investigators. #SaturdayThoughtsnadler.house.gov/press-release/…

1-"Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement in response to a report in the New York Times that the FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump may have been working on

2-"behalf of Russia against American interests after his firing of former FBI Director James Comey: "We have learned from this reporting that, even in the earliest days of the Trump Administration, the President’s behavior was so erratic and so concerning that the FBI felt

This Quartz piece from 2018, talks about how Trump's attempts to control the news, the narrative-if you will, are straight from Putin's playbook. It applied then & it applied last night. So important for us to pay att'n to what is REAL. #SaturdayThoughtsqz.com/1336230/donald…

"1-A scandal erupts over something Trump or another White House official says or does. (In this case, audio of Trump and Cohen discussing how to buy the rights to a woman’s allegation that she had an affair with Trump.) 2-Media frenzy ensues. 3-The White House issues an

"outrageous-but-plausible-if-you-want-it-to-be denial about some detail of the story. (In this case, the White House released a transcript of the call, which claims Trump said “don’t” before “pay with cash.” The “don’t” is not audible on the tape.) 4-Journalistic rules about

2-"Most significantly, the dossier reports a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [Trump and his associates] and the Russian leadership,” including an “intelligence exchange [that] had been running between them for at least 8 years.”

3-"There has been significant investigative reporting about connections between Trump, his associates & Kremlin-affiliated individuals..Trump acknowledged that the purpose of a June 16 meeting between his son, & a Kremlin-connected lawyer was to obtain “dirt” on Hillary Clinton."

2-"White House officials on Wednesday asked federal agencies to send them a list of stalled services they would like to resume to minimize the public impact of the federal shutdown, three people familiar with the directive said. The message, conveyed during a conference call

3-"between top officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget and federal agencies, is part of a broader effort to keep large parts of the federal government running while President Trump digs in for a lengthy battle over a border wall. The Trump administration is

1-This is interesting & could end up being pertinent to what Trump's trying to do now-"On 9/11/01, Bush 43 declared a state of emergency..That declared state of emergency has continued in full force and effect from 9/11 TO THE PRESENT.." #SundayThoughtsconstitutionally.blogspot.com

2-What is important to know is that a formally declared state of National Emergency has ancillary effects, for one thing, it invokes martial law-something that Trump can't be trusted with. It also implements Continuity of Gov't, IF the President chooses to invoke that..

3-"What Are Continuity of Government Plans? Continuity of government plans are contingency plans which create a new government in the case of an alleged threat to the ability of the American government to continue operations. America's COG plans were created to deal with

2-"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump held forth on all manner of things this past week as he emerged from a “lonely” spell over the holidays. He opined for more than 90 minutes to the press, at the top of a Cabinet meeting, on the shutdown, immigration, drug prices, the

3-"Soviet history in Afghanistan, his approval ratings, Syria, oil prices, the nature of walls, the attractiveness of his generals (“better looking than Tom Cruise”), and much more. He capped the week with a Rose Garden news conference that stretched for an hour.

2-"At least three men were killed and four more injured in a shooting at a bowling alley in Torrance, Calif., the police said early Saturday. The Torrance Police Department said on Twitter that there had been “reports of shots fired with multiple victims down” at Gable House Bowl

3-"in Torrance, a southeastern suburb of Los Angeles. The police urged people to “stay away from the area.” Tweet from Torrence Police at 3:13am "Reports of shots fired with multiple victims down. T P D is on scene. Investigation is ongoing. Please stay away from the area."

I heard a GOP pundit say this am that "all the Dems have to do is sit on their hands & wait for the Mueller rpt to come out"
That isn't even CLOSE to what is happening already-but it's what the GOP will try to make them do. #SaturdayMorningpolitico.com/story/2019/01/…

2-"A day after assuming the majority, House Democrats on Friday unveiled a sweeping ethics reform package that would put new checks on the White House and require President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. House Democrats mostly presented the package — which contains

3-"numerous changes to campaign finance and ethics law — as a set of popular good-government reforms during a Friday press conference on Capitol Hill. But the bill’s proposed checks on Trump also will make it a useful cudgel for the new majority, even though the legislation is

"Trump claims support from past presidents for the wall: Clinton, Bush and Obama beg to differ"
Here's another fact check on Trump's latest (and most massive & divisive) effort to hedge against being investigated for as long as possible. #SaturdayMorningpolitico.com/story/2019/01/…

2-"President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. But at least three of the four living U.S. presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack

3-"Obama — did no such thing. Asked if Clinton told Trump that he should have built a border wall, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said, “He did not. In fact, they’ve not talked since the inauguration.” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford also said the two men had not discussed the matter.

2-"This problem of call outs is really going to explode over the next week or two when employees miss their first paycheck,.. "TSA officers are telling the union they will find another way to make money. That means calling out to work other jobs."

3-"Single parents can no longer afford child care or they are finding cash-paying jobs outside of government work to pay their rent and other bills, for example." Guaranteed that Trump will find a way to vilify these people. Watch. #FridayFeeling#TSAwalkout

2-"A day after a federal judge denounced the former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, at a sentencing hearing, for lying to F.B.I. agents, the judge had a similar message on Wednesday for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Follow the law. It was one of two court decisions this

3-"week making clear that the administration was overstepping its powers to restrict the granting of asylum.The ruling on Wednesday involved then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision in June to bar immigrants from seeking asylum based on their fears of domestic violence and

2- Excerpts: "Trump has been isolated in bunker mode in recent weeks as political and personal crises mount, according to interviews with 27 current and former White House officials, Republican lawmakers, and outside advisers to the president, some of whom spoke on the condition

3-"of anonymity to offer candid assessments. “There’s going to be an intervention,” one former senior administration official said speculatively. “Jim Mattis just sent a shot across the bow. He’s the most credible member of the administration by five grades of magnitude.

2-"Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is resigning, effective in February. And, like former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, he’s not exactly making his concerns about President Trump a big secret. In his resignation letter, Mattis strongly suggests he doesn’t have much faith in

3-"Trump’s vision or leadership. And it’s not even all that veiled. [Here is] the letter, with annotations [in parenthesis]:
Dear Mr. President: I have been privileged to serve as our country's 26th Secretary of Defense which has allowed me to serve alongside our men and women of

2-"I will be going on book leave soon — today is my last column for a while because of the holiday schedule — to write what I believe to be the most important thing that I’ve ever written. No, it’s not about Donald Trump, just in case you were wondering.But since I have written

3-"almost exclusively about Trump for more than two years, please allow me this parting assessment: It is so much worse than I thought. My original objections to Trump, the things that pushed me into the Resistance, were his immorality, dishonesty, fraudulence and grift. I freely

2-"MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday welcomed President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, calling it “the right decision.”Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was ordering the withdrawal because the United States military

3-"had achieved its goal of defeating the Islamic State militant group in Syria. But the move caught many by surprise, including some of his military and diplomatic advisers. It has also drawn criticism, even among Republicans, for abandoning Kurdish allies in the fight against

"[Trump's] vile, vicious decrepitude has permeated every aspect of our lives.."
I LOVE it when my followers send me their blog pages..& this one is a good one. Check it out, kids! And thanks @bfbuschi VERY well done! #ThursdayThoughts

2-"Yes Virginia and everyone else in our 50 states, there is a Santa Claus. Santa's coming. Santa is bringing indictments, investigations and probably an impeachment or two. Santa knows who's been naughty and who's been nice. Santa is using a new scale to weigh these matters.

This happened on Friday, & according to the press who were present it was quite shocking when the entire 5th floor of the US District CT in DC was closed for this hearing..#SundayMorningnytimes.com/2018/12/15/us/…

2-"WASHINGTON — For the past several months, journalists, legal experts and close followers of the special counsel’s investigation have been trying to uncover one particular secret about the inquiry: Is the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in a closed-door legal battle?

3-"If so, with whom?In October, Politico reported that Mr. Mueller appeared to be in a secret fight with a witness who was refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. A CNN journalist reported seeing two of Mr.

Snopes said 14 mos ago that Trump had already spent 147 mil on personal travel-Mueller inves $ is up to 25 mil, resulting in what we now know & us poss being able to remove T from office-OSC is worth every penny! Read this: #SundayMorningapnews.com/6d6361fdf19846…

2-We have a Pres who isn't engaged in policy, who works part-time- coming to the office at noon, after hours of 'executive time' watching FoxNews in the residence-& who spends an inordinate amt of time mired in dramas of his own making-In add to OSC inves, there's this stuff:

3-"—Democratic attorneys general in Maryland and the District of Columbia and congressional Democrats are challenging the Trump Organization’s business transactions with foreign and state government interests, such as those at his Washington hotel, citing the constitutional ban

This article dropped an hour ago. It's the result of an enormous, very long & involved investigation by Times reporters (linked in the article), so it's going to elbow its way into the Cable news convo again. Here's your primer... #SaturdayThoughtsnytimes.com/2018/12/15/us/…

2- As requested I am threading this article. Bear with me, it may take a little time.... 🙃
"They were collateral damage as Donald J. Trump and his siblings dodged inheritance taxes and gained control of their father’s fortune: thousands of renters in an empire of unassuming

3-"red-brick buildings scattered across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.Those buildings have been home to generations of strivers, municipal workers and newly arrived immigrants. When their regulated rents started rising more quickly in the 1990s, many tenants had no idea why.

2-"President Trump’s inability to respond to one charge emanating from one witness, a charge not even within the purview of the special counsel, suggests he will be entirely overwhelmed when the closet full of shoes starts dropping. He never knew about the payments, or he did, or

3-"it was Michael Cohen’s fault, or it wasn’t a crime, or if it was a crime it was no big deal. This might be the most inept response to allegations of presidential wrongdoing ever.Michael Cohen’s interview with ABC News underscores a critical point: His own credibility has been

What Trump doesn't appear to realize (as he was tweeting that the French were chanting for him today), is that before too long, this will be what the streets in the US look like if the legislature doesn't protect Mueller/get Trump out.#SundayMorningnewyorker.com/news/daily-com…

2-I believe that this is what we called 'rioting in the streets' back in the 60s..."This tax hike seemed to the group, which gathered followers mostly through social media, the last insult of metropolitan Paris to rural France, and they began protesting and blockading highways

3-"across the country. Last week, the protests reached Paris, where the gilets jaunes—or, by most reports, members of the largely rural group aided by extreme leftists and even more extreme rightists, both prepped for street battle—rioted on the Champs Élysées, vandalized the

"Scaramucci..[said] that the author of.. QAnon has “been dead accurate about so many things,” adding: “When you find out who he is, you’re not going to believe it.”
Tell me that this isn't an alternate universe... this is SO bizarre! #SaturdayThoughtspolitico.com/story/2018/12/…

2-"Approached immediately afterward by POLITICO, Scaramucci said his comments were not referring to Q and instead referred to an earlier conversation he had had with the couple about who would succeed John Kelly as Trump’s chief of staff...

3-"American Priority, which brings together an impressive roster of right-wing social media agitators and Trump world notables at a Washington, D.C., hotel, was envisioned as a Trumpist answer to CPAC.